Welcome to Tokyo Kimono Lovers Club. We have kimono wearing lessons in English. If you would like to know how to wear kimono on your own, or practice how to wear it nicely, or chat in English about kimono, this is the place. Please contact Shino who has a kimono wearing class at her house in Meguro Tokyo.

8/31/10

This summer, because of record-breaking heat wave, I couldn't wear kimono at all. Instead, I wore a fan(s) shirt which send wind to your back directly and cool off.

If you would like to see details, click here. On the right shoulder of the page, you will find "see in English" link.

It is a good idea to remove fans from the shirt and put these fans inside of obi. Since they are removable and the shirt is washable. You also need to connect battery box to fans but it is small enough to insert obi.

I did so last summer, since it was only around 30 Celsius, but this year, the temperature almost hit 40C ( 100F)...omb! (Oh my Buddha!)

But my kimono mate Rie was different. she said she wore kimonos in this summer for her health, since kimono protect her from artificial air-conditioning. She must be right. I will wear kimono next summer, for sure, if it is not so hot...

How she looked cool! in Akagi tsumugi with specially twisted weaving and Yaeyama ramie sash. Both were light, thin and cool.

She tightened her white wearing with nasukon eggplant-like deep blue. This is cool, too.

Cultural Experience Class in Tokyo Meguro

ABOUT ME

Thank you for your interests on kimono. Kimono is magic. It is quite comfortable to wear, and tells you lots of historical secrets why kimono have been worn over a thousand years. Sadly, kimono wearers become minority recently, so you can be a special person if you wear kimono.
Now I am offering kimono wearing lesson in English on request bases. If you would like to join, please contact shinokimono at gmail. With just three times lessons, I will make you to be able to wear kimono (if you practice at your home hard). Anyhow, the lesson is really fun and good exercise. Please join my kimono club!

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Antiquie Kimonos on Auction

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My favorite kimono magazine Nanao's English version

a selection of the best articles from Japanese kimono magazine

PHOTO BOOK:Kimono for these 90 years

Kimono photos on Japanese Housewife Magazine from the first to the last issue. (1917-2007)

Kimono History BOOK:Marriage in Edo

This book introduces how every class of Japanese in Edo era carried their wedding ceremony by texts and some illustrations (not so many and they are monochrome). The most interesting to me was Edo wedding was carried at night. This is the reason of Japanese traditional bride wear all in white!

PHOTO BOOK: Shigeko Ikeda Collection, Haneri Kimono Collars

300 antique collars from Meiji to early-Showa. On this book, she said she was taught by her mother that collars showed the person. So when you saw a person, saw the collar first…

PHOTO BOOK: Empress Michiko's Kimonos

Elegant state of the art kimonos Empress Michiko wore from her engagemtn in 1958 to canada visit in 2008.

PHOTO BOOK: Shimagame in Ginza

Some established woman novelists' status kimono. Beautiful, sensitive and adored

PHOTO BOOK: Men's Kimono

Men's kimono is easy to wear. Only this book is enough to know how to wear and what men's kimono is.